Wives and wanderers in a New Guinea highlands society : women's lives in the Wahgi Valley / by Marie Olive Reay ; edited by Francesca Merlan ; with additional introduction by Marilyn Strathern
- Bib ID:
- 6894590
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Reay, Marie, 1922-2004, author
- Online Access:
- Archived at ANL
- Related Online Resources:
- Publisher site
- Description:
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- Canberra, ACT : ANU Press, [2014]
- ©2014
- 1 online resource (lxvi, 202 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits (some colour)
- ISBN:
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- 97819250212155 (paperback)
- 9781925022162 (ebook)
- Series:
- PANDORA electronic collection.
- Technical Details:
- Mode of access: Available online. Address as at 21/07/15: http://press.anu.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/whole3.pdf
- Summary:
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Wives and Wanderers in a New Guinea Highlands Society brings to the reader anthropologist Marie Reay's field research from the 1950s and 1960s on women's lives in the Wahgi Valley, Central Highlands of Papua New Guinea. Dramatically written, each chapter adds to the main story that Reay wanted to tell, contrasting young girls' freedom to court and choose partners, with the constraints (and violence) they were to experience as married women. Had this manuscript appeared when Reay apparently completed it in its present form - around 1965 - it would have been the first published ethnography of women's lives in the Central Highlands of Papua New Guinea. Its retrieval from Reay's papers, and availability now, adds a new dimension to works on gender relations in Melanesian societies, and to the history of Australian and Pacific anthropology.
- Full contents:
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- Editor's introduction
- Introduction
- Preface
- Chapter 1: The world of a woman
- Chapter 2: Carrying leg
- Chapter 3: A girl is marked
- Chapter 4: A rubbish man takes a wife
- Chapter 5: Lothario gains a bride
- Chapter 6: The Amazonian mood
- Chapter 7: Meri Tultul
- Chapter 8: Wandering wives
- Chapter 9: A woman of the Kugika
- Chapter 10: The witch-girl and the shrew
- Chapter 11: True cousin
- Chapter 12: One family
- Chapter 13: Laik Bilong Man
- Chapter 14: 'Wandering women' and 'good women'
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
- Appendix C
- Appendix D
- Appendix E.
- Notes:
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- Title from PDF title page (viewed on 26 March 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
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